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WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
WORLD HEADQUARTERS
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
President and Pastor
February 25, 1974
Dear Brethren in GOD'S CHURCH:
This is most URGENT and IMPORTANT. I am writing at an
altitude of more than seven miles above the Pacific Ocean below, at
a speed of 585 miles per hour back to Pasadena, with a heart
heavier than lead.
I have said before that Satan was attacking the Work of the
living GOD, and that he would attack again. Now suddenly he is
pulling out ALL STOPS in an effort to DESTROY God's Work. He has
struck just as I was arriving at Manila, The Philippines, for the
FIRST of the great PUBLIC CAMPAIGNS in world capitals, sponsored,
endorsed and approved by those AT THE TOP of the national
governments. Arriving at Manila mid-afternoon day before yesterday,
I was greeted by a large white-uniformed brass band, a Minister of
Education in the President's Cabinet, a president or Vice-President
of the University and other dignitaries. This was all planned by
high government and university officials. Local television
cameramen and newspaper men also were there. I was taken into the
VIP lounge, and there interviewed by TV news men and newspaper men.
It went out on TV news twice that evening, and my picture
and story about the campaign appeared in all Sunday newspapers. I
was told that a crowd of 50,000 or more was expected for the final
meeting next Sunday night. The University was to confer an honorary
Doctor of Humanities degree on me next Wednesday.
Satan HATES God's Church. He hates and seeks every way to
DESTROY God's great WORK -- proclaiming the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM
OF GOD in all the world as a witness to all nations.
Brethren, GOD'S WORK is the REASON for the very GROWTH OF,
and EXISTENCE of God's Church! I have told you how the WORK began
in January, 1934, proclaiming the Good News of the KINGDOM OF GOD
over radio. The PLAIN TRUTH began proclaiming that Message of God's
KINGDOM February 1, 1934. The Work grew, and GREW in power and
scope, until it has come to reach the MILLIONS -- although mostly
in the United States, Canada and Australia. I have told you how,
when it came to getting that vital END-TIME Last Message into the
BIG POPULATION nations, we were STOPPED. Radio, Television, and in
many cases even the advertising columns in newspapers and magazines
are GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED in the BIG nations -- China, India,
Russia, Indonesia, Japan, Bangladesh -- the middle-east nations,
Britain and the nations in Europe, Africa, South America, Central
America. Those facilities were always closed to us.
I prayed earnestly that God would OPEN DOORS to reach THOSE
nations. I've told you how we have discovered they can be reached